AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data, and uses Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to protect the security of your keys. AWS Key Management Service is integrated with other AWS services including Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, and Amazon WorkMail. AWS Key Management Service is also integrated with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of all key usage to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs.
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AWS Key Management Service provides you with centralized control of your encryption keys. KMS presents a single view into all of the key usage in your organization. You can easily create keys, implement key rotation, create usage policies, and enable logging from the AWS Management Console, or by using the API.
AWS Key Management Service is integrated with Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, Amazon WorkMail, and Amazon EMR to make it easy to encrypt the data you store with these services using keys that you manage.
AWS Key Management Service makes it easy to manage encryption keys used to encrypt data stored by your applications regardless of where you store it. KMS provides an SDK for programmatic integration of encryption and key management into your applications.
AWS Key Management Service works with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of API calls made to or by KMS. These logs help you meet compliance and regulatory requirements by providing details of when keys were accessed and who accessed them.
AWS Key Management Service is a fully managed service, so you can focus on the encryption needs of your applications while AWS handles availability, physical security, and hardware maintenance of the underlying infrastructure.
There is no charge for the storage of default keys in your account. You pay only for additional master keys that you create and your key usage.
AWS Key Management Service provides you a secure location to store and use encryption keys, using hardened systems where your unencrypted keys are only used in memory. KMS keys are never transmitted outside of the AWS regions in which they were created.
